Band-cutter and feeder.



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BAND CUTTER AND FEEDER. APPLIoATIoN FILED 8211111.19043.

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No. 871,742. PATENTED NOV. 19, 1907.

G. W. TICE.

BAND CUTTER AND FEEDER.

AFPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 1l. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEieE.

GEORGE W. TICE, OF RILEY CENTER, MICIHGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALE TO ALLEN K.

TICE, OF LARIMORE, NORTH DAKOTA.

BAND-CUTTER AND FEEDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 19, 1907'.

Original application filed November 23, 1905, Serial No. 288.768. Divided and this application filed September l1. 1906. Serial Noi 334,122.

To all whom it may concern.'

Beit known that 1, GEORGE 1N. TICE, citizen of the United States, residing at Riley Oenter, in the county of St. Clair, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Band-Cutters and Feeders, comprising a division of my original application filed November 23, 1905, Serial No. 288,763, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to a band cutter and feeder, and particularly to a novel construetion of the band cutting rollers and coperating spreader roller for conveying material to theA threshing cylinders.

The invention has for an object to provide an improved construction of these feeding and spreading rollers and also for the driving mechanism therefor wherebv the feed of the rollers may be governed relative to the volume of material while maintaining their constant driving relation, and are adapted to reverse their feed if a sufficiently large volume of material be fed thereto so as to throw back the surplus material until the parts are restored to their normal relative position whereby means are provided for automatically governing the Afeed to the threshing cylinder. v

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention will be hereinafter set forth and the novel features thereof de'lined by the appended claims. n

1n the drawing :#Fignre 1 is a vertical section through a portion of a threshing niachine showing the band cutter applied thereto; Eig. 2 is a plan of the cutting and spreading rollers; Fig. 3 is a d etail elevation with parts in section of the driving mechanism for these rollers, Fig. 4 is a similar view the supporting frame `for part of this driving mechanism, and Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 5, Fig. 3.

Like numerals of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

The numeral 1 designates the frame of the machine which may be of any suitable character and is supported at the feeding end by means of a traction wheel 2. When the inachine is to be used for the purpose of feeding bundles tied in the usnaliiianner, the construction and arrangement of parts shown l' in Fig. 1 is used where a depending frame 5 is provided having at its lower end'a' bearing wheel 6 over which the belt 7 of the feeder ra-kes passes. These rakes S are pivotally mounted upon this belt oi carrier, and provided at their inner ends with an arin 9 adapted to engage the rake trip 10 which extends upward along tlie ascending portion of the apron. The rakes are thus thrown into a position obliquely to the apron and held there during the travel of the rakes in contact with the trip and until they reach the deflected portion 11 thereof, when they are released from their trip and permitted to fall so that the bundle or material carried thereby is free to be received intothe machine. For the purpose of directing these bundles upon this apron or rake, the reels 12 are provided.

The bundle delivered by the pivoted rakes is received by the spreader roller 17, which is provided with plates 18 disposed spirally or diagonally to the longitudinal axis of the i'oller so as to feed the grain longitudinally of the roller to spread a layer of equal thickness after the cutting of the bands thereon and before its introduction to the threshing cylinders. This hand cutting is accomplished by means of the rollers 19 and 19L mounted in a pivoted arm 2O above the spreader roller and cach provided with peripheral blades or other knives 21 disposed in lines overlapping each other, as shown in E ig. 2. spreading roller is adapted to be driven at a greater speed than the band cutting rollers in any desired manner, vfor instance, as shown in Eig. 3. This is accomplished by an adjustment of the arni 20 carrying these rollers by any suitable means, for instance, the segnient 22 and ratchet lever 23 having a link connection 24. The band cutting roller has secured thereto a friction disk 25 which is also pivotally mounted in the boxing 26. This boxing is carried by the machine frame from the supporting frame 27 having an arm 28 extending therefrom and provided with a pivotal connection 29 for thc boxing, see Fig. 4. At the end of the frame a bearing 3() is provided for the shaft of the roller 19 and at the opposite end a bearing 31 is provided for the shaft 32 carrying the friction disk 33 which is held under spring tension by means of the spring 34 disposed between the hub 35 of said disk and the bearing 31. The

The bundle spreader roller 17 is driven in any desired manner, for instance, by means of the crossed belt 36, shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and has an extended shaft mounted in bearings 37 and provided with a bevel'gear 38 meshing with a cooperating bevel gear 39 supported by the bearing 40. This gear 39 is provided with an angular hub 41 over which the correspondingly shaped collar 42 is adapted to slide and is provided upon its upper face with a clutch member 43. This collar and clutch are lifted upward in the rotation of the pinion by means of the weighted arms 44 connected bv links 45 with the collar 42 and normally restored by means of springs 46. The gear 39 is freely rotatable upon the lower end of the shaft 47, and this shaft has secured thereto a clutch face 48 adapted to cooperate with the member 43, and is provided at its upper end with a friction driving Wheel 49 adapted for movement longitudinally upon the vshaft 47. This Wheel 49 is mounted in a frame 50 connecting with the adjusting lever 23. This frame 50 is provided with a yoke 51 embracing the hub 52 of the friction drive 49, which is slidingly mounted upon the angular portion 53 of the shaft 47. The frame is also provided with a yoke 54 embracing the clutch member 55 disposed upon the upper angular end 56 of the shaft 47. When the parts are raised in position by means of this frame, the clutch 57 carried by the power transmitting wheel 58, which is slidingly mounted upon the circular portion 59 of the shaft 47, is brought into contact with the clutch to reverse the direction of drive. It will also be observed that the boxing 26 is provided with a socket 60 in which the hub 61 of the power transmitting wheel 58 is adapted to seat so that these parts may be shifted to vary the position of the driving wheel and power transmitting wheel relatively to the centers of the friction disks 25 and 33. By this means the cutter roll 19 is driven from the spreading roll and its associate roll 19a is driven therefrom by means of the belt 61, as shown in Fig. 2. From the opposite end of the shaft of the roll 19, a belt 62 extends to the pivotal point 63 of the arm 20 from which a crossed belt 64 extends to the rake driving pulley 65. With this construction it will be seen that in the operation of feeding material to the machine, the volume fed will be in proportion to the spaces between the feeding and spreading rolls, and should a larger volume than intended pass between said rolls, it will raise the frame carrying the cutting rolls, while maintaining the same driving relation to the mechanism hereinbefore described. Should the volume fed be so large as to entirely withdraw the friction drive roll from contact with its disks, this woul d cause the disk, and also the shaft of the cutter to stop and free the connections hereinbefore described loperation as soon as restored to their normal position. The foregoing construction provides means for automatically governing the feed to the threshing cylinder.

Having now describedmy invention and set forth its merits, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a machine of the class described, a spreading roller, a support mounted for movement toward and from said roller, a feed roller carried by said support, a driving connection from the spreading roller to the feed roller, and means disposed relative to said connection and controlled by the continued movement of said support to automatically regulate the speed of rotation, stop and reverse one of said rollers in its relative movement to the other.

2. In a machine of the class described, a spreading roller, a support mounted for movement toward and from said roller, a feed roller carried by said support and provided with a friction driving disk, a friction wheel bearing upon said disk and carrying a clutch member, a gear driven from the spreading roller and having a hub, and a centrifugally operated clutch member slidably mounted upon said hub and rotated by said gear to engage the clutch member upon the friction wheel shaft.

3. In a machine of the classl described, a threshing cylinder, driven band cutters disposed adjacent thereto, a spreading roller having oppositely disposed blades thereon, a pivoted arm for supporting said band cutters, a gearing extending from said spreading roller to one of the band cutters for driving the same at a relatively different speed and means controlled by the travel of said arm to regulate the speed of rotation of said cutter.

4. In a machine of the class described, a threshing cylinder, driven band cutters disposed adjacent thereto, a spreading roller having oppositely disposed blades thereon, a pivoted arm for supporting said band cutters, a gearing extending from said spreading roller to one of said band cutters for driving the same at a relatively different speed, a feeding rake adapted to deliver to said roller and band cutters, and means for driving said rake from said band cutters.

5. In a machine of the class described, a threshing cylinder, driven band cutters disposed adjacent thereto, a spreading roller having oppositely disposed blades thereon, a pivoted arm for supporting said band eutters, a gearing extending from said spreading roller to one of said band cutters for driving the same at a relatively different speed, a feeding rake adapted to deliver to said roller and band cutters, means for driving said rake from said band cutters, a reel carried at the lower end of said rake, and means for driving said reel from said rake.

6. In a machine of the class described, a spreading roller carried by a support, a feed roller mounted for movement relative thereto, a driving connection from the spreading roller tothe feed roller and means controlled by the travel of said support to automatically reverse the rotation of the feed roller during their separation.

7. In a machine of the class described, a spreading roller, a feed roller mounted 'for movement relative thereto, and a driving connection from the spreading roller to the feed roller adapted to reduce the speed of the latter, stop the rotation thereof and reverse the direction of said rotation in the continued separation of the feed roller from the spreading roller` 8. In a machine of the class described, a spreading roller, a feeding and cutting roller mounted 'for movement relative thereto, a driving disk carried by the feed roller, a driving wheel actuated by the spreading roller and engaging said disk, and a reversing drive wheel engaging said disk and adapted to be clutched into driving connection by the `movement of the 'feed roller relative to the opposite sides of the axes of the disks, a spreading roller operatively connected with the driving shaft 'for said wheels, and ymeans for shifting said wheels to clutch either thereof in driving relation with said shaft.

10. In a machine of the class described, a :feed roller provided with a driving disk, an opposite spring pressed disk, a driving wheel disposed between said disks, means 'for shifting said wheel relative to the center of said disks, a bear-ing for the feed roller disk, a reversing driving wheel mounted in said bearing and provided with a clutch face, and a relatively v[ixed driven clutch member adapted to be engaged by said face in the shifting of said bearing and parts carried thereby.

11. In a machine of the class described, a spreading roller provided with a bevel pinion, a cooperating bevel gear provided with a centrifugally operated clutch, a band cutter provided with a frictional drive wheel, a friction wheel carried by said clutch., and an operating lever connected to shift said friction wheel upon the shaft of said clutclr.

12. In a machine of the class described, a spreading roller provided with a bevel pinion, a cooperating bevel gear provided with a centrifugally operated clutch, a band cutter provided with a frictional drive wheel, a friction wheel carried by said clutch, an operat-,

ing lever connected to shift said friction wheel upon the shaft of said clutch, and areversing drive wheel adapted to engage a driving clutch in the movement of said operating lever.

In testimony whereof I ailiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. TICE.

Vitnesses:

FRANK L.l Fomiow,

II. l/V. CURRY. 

